Finished!!

small change said:

the last day, we finished our 894' alternated route trail today! 4 work
days, about 115 hours, and ta-da!

Well done.

JD

small change said:

the last day, we finished our 894' alternated route trail today! 4 work
days, about 115 hours, and ta-da!

This is our "meet the mountain bike club" trail that we've built in a very
heavily used multi user area of a local state park. The trail for years
has been this fall line nasty thing that has been impossible to ride up, and
rideable down but it's just [censored] erosion mostly. The goals was to create an
alternate line ( the original fall line trail is being left for anyone who
wants to ride it) that was more flowy, singletracky, and rideable in both
directions for an lower level intermediate rider

here's the promo pic that was in the paper for our group. I just got this
from the outdoors editor last week.
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/FAT%20TIREsm.jpg

Today, we had several things to do. The upper section has been cleared and
roughed in through the scree field, and was really rough. It's bottomless
chunky basalt, and no matter how many rocks you move and place, there were
more. You couldn't really do paving or armoring, because basalt doesn't
fracture on planes, so we wanted to fill in the worst spots with chipped
gravel. Also, when the trail was cleared the first time, all the rocks were
just pushed to the side. So, we knocked down all the rocks lining the
outside of the trail. The tread isn't any wider, but it LOOKS wider. That
was fun, throwing rocks down the hill all morning.

This is the upper section, in the fog with larch needles before we did
anything to it.
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3132sm.jpg

the white stuff is St. Helen's ash
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3140sm.jpg

We worked on cleaning up the lower section some, fixing the bench cut
mostly. The sun came out and made the larches glow
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3141sm.jpg
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3142sm.jpg

All the down trees are from the fire about 8 years ago.
We were going to dig this one root out, but the tree was dead so it was
felled. The dead ones just fall over in winter anyway.We made a little jump
out of the stump:

http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/stumpjump.jpg

We cleaned up the bottom entry a little so it was more obvious. It's flat
there, not much to be done.

http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3151sm.jpg

Then last thing is we moved gravel into the top section.
It's really fun to ride now.

http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3153sm.jpg
here's "before" again.
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3132sm.jpg

nice,
bill
The First law, Inertia: Unless acted upon by an outside force,
a body at rest tends to stay at rest,
and a body in motion tends to stay in motion.
Sir Isaac Newton

small change said:

the last day, we finished our 894' alternated route trail today! 4 work
days, about 115 hours, and ta-da!

This is our "meet the mountain bike club" trail that we've built in a very
heavily used multi user area of a local state park. The trail for years
has been this fall line nasty thing that has been impossible to ride up, and
rideable down but it's just [censored] erosion mostly. The goals was to create an
alternate line ( the original fall line trail is being left for anyone who
wants to ride it) that was more flowy, singletracky, and rideable in both
directions for an lower level intermediate rider

here's the promo pic that was in the paper for our group. I just got this
from the outdoors editor last week.
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/FAT%20TIREsm.jpg

Today, we had several things to do. The upper section has been cleared and
roughed in through the scree field, and was really rough. It's bottomless
chunky basalt, and no matter how many rocks you move and place, there were
more. You couldn't really do paving or armoring, because basalt doesn't
fracture on planes, so we wanted to fill in the worst spots with chipped
gravel. Also, when the trail was cleared the first time, all the rocks were
just pushed to the side. So, we knocked down all the rocks lining the
outside of the trail. The tread isn't any wider, but it LOOKS wider. That
was fun, throwing rocks down the hill all morning.

This is the upper section, in the fog with larch needles before we did
anything to it.
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3132sm.jpg

the white stuff is St. Helen's ash
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3140sm.jpg

We worked on cleaning up the lower section some, fixing the bench cut
mostly. The sun came out and made the larches glow
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3141sm.jpg
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3142sm.jpg

All the down trees are from the fire about 8 years ago.
We were going to dig this one root out, but the tree was dead so it was
felled. The dead ones just fall over in winter anyway.We made a little jump
out of the stump:

http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/stumpjump.jpg

We cleaned up the bottom entry a little so it was more obvious. It's flat
there, not much to be done.

http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3151sm.jpg

Then last thing is we moved gravel into the top section.
It's really fun to ride now.

http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3153sm.jpg
here's "before" again.
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3132sm.jpg

Nice job Penny. Very productive form of cross training ya got there.

Shawn

small change said:

the last day, we finished our 894' alternated route trail today! 4 work
days, about 115 hours, and ta-da!

This is our "meet the mountain bike club" trail that we've built in a very
heavily used multi user area of a local state park. The trail for years
has been this fall line nasty thing that has been impossible to ride up, and
rideable down but it's just [censored] erosion mostly. The goals was to create an
alternate line ( the original fall line trail is being left for anyone who
wants to ride it) that was more flowy, singletracky, and rideable in both
directions for an lower level intermediate rider

here's the promo pic that was in the paper for our group. I just got this
from the outdoors editor last week.
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/FAT%20TIREsm.jpg

Today, we had several things to do. The upper section has been cleared and
roughed in through the scree field, and was really rough. It's bottomless
chunky basalt, and no matter how many rocks you move and place, there were
more. You couldn't really do paving or armoring, because basalt doesn't
fracture on planes, so we wanted to fill in the worst spots with chipped
gravel. Also, when the trail was cleared the first time, all the rocks were
just pushed to the side. So, we knocked down all the rocks lining the
outside of the trail. The tread isn't any wider, but it LOOKS wider. That
was fun, throwing rocks down the hill all morning.

This is the upper section, in the fog with larch needles before we did
anything to it.
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3132sm.jpg

the white stuff is St. Helen's ash
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3140sm.jpg

We worked on cleaning up the lower section some, fixing the bench cut
mostly. The sun came out and made the larches glow
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3141sm.jpg
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3142sm.jpg

All the down trees are from the fire about 8 years ago.
We were going to dig this one root out, but the tree was dead so it was
felled. The dead ones just fall over in winter anyway.We made a little jump
out of the stump:

http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/stumpjump.jpg

We cleaned up the bottom entry a little so it was more obvious. It's flat
there, not much to be done.

http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3151sm.jpg

Then last thing is we moved gravel into the top section.
It's really fun to ride now.

http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3153sm.jpg
here's "before" again.
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3132sm.jpg

Great work, Penny! Get the local papers to do more stories on your
group and submit your work to IMBA.

--
o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot o-o-o-o
www.schnauzers.ws

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Quoted message said:

the last day, we finished our 894' alternated route trail today! 4 work
days, about 115 hours, and ta-da!

"Kudos" to you!

small change said:

We worked on cleaning up the lower section some, fixing the bench cut
mostly. The sun came out and made the larches glow
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3141sm.jpg
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3142sm.jpg

That's some textbook benchcut right there. Beautiful work!

Quoted message said:

All the down trees are from the fire about 8 years ago.
We were going to dig this one root out, but the tree was dead so it
was felled. The dead ones just fall over in winter anyway.We made a
little jump out of the stump:

http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/stumpjump.jpg

First time I've ever seen a real "Stumpjump". ;^)
Great way to keep it fun.

Mike

Michael Dart said:

Quoted message said:

http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3141sm.jpg
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3142sm.jpg

That's some textbook benchcut right there. Beautiful work!

Hee hee, I cut some of that myself!! I can't swing an axe for [censored] so I
bought a pickax/mattock. The pick works great on all the little rocks we
have around here.

I'm really hoping to take Mr. Adventure out there today and show him what
I've been up to. His seperated shoulder seems to be settling down, so we may
try an easy ride today.

Our local IMBA rep is a great teacher and trail builder. He laid the trail
out, and is wonderful to work with. He's been laying the groundwork for a
club for years, by building relationships with various organizations out
there, and he's been just waiting for a group effort to be going.

We were really surprised to get the thing DONE yesterday. The big job we
were all dreading was bring some of the gravel in to improve the tread on
the scree section. The original plan was that the State Park would bring
about 4 yards in and dump it at where we have to park, which is abot 1/2
mile away from the trail. Then, we would have had to hump it with wheel
barrows to the actual work site. I had it all worked out the with local
Backcountry Horsemen group ( yeah, yeah, I know, horses; but they are good
folks and they build trails too) to bring in their pack stock to help with
the gravel, in a few weeks before the snow came.

It turned out that this really cool ranger got the 4x4 truck, and brough the
gravel all the way in to where we were working - no need to hump that last
half mile. It was just a matter of running it down the trail right to where
it was needed. We did about two pickup truck loads, which appears to be
enough. Now we will just wait and see how it sets up over winter.

And yes Mitch - I'm well in contact with the Outdoors writer for the local
rag. ( and IMBA) The very first pic in the series is one he took to promote
the project in the beginning. He's been great, and it's on my to do list
already to submit the stats on the finished trail to him. He's always doing
these little one paragraph long field updates.

Penny

WHO THE HELL CARES? THIS [censored] IS A JOKE AND BORING TOO!

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Quoted message said:

the last day, we finished our 894' alternated route trail today! 4 work
days, about 115 hours, and ta-da!

This is our "meet the mountain bike club" trail that we've built in a very
heavily used multi user area of a local state park. The trail for years
has been this fall line nasty thing that has been impossible to ride up,

and

Quoted message said:

rideable down but it's just [censored] erosion mostly. The goals was to create

an

Quoted message said:

alternate line ( the original fall line trail is being left for anyone who
wants to ride it) that was more flowy, singletracky, and rideable in both
directions for an lower level intermediate rider

here's the promo pic that was in the paper for our group. I just got this
from the outdoors editor last week.
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/FAT%20TIREsm.jpg

Today, we had several things to do. The upper section has been cleared and
roughed in through the scree field, and was really rough. It's bottomless
chunky basalt, and no matter how many rocks you move and place, there were
more. You couldn't really do paving or armoring, because basalt doesn't
fracture on planes, so we wanted to fill in the worst spots with chipped
gravel. Also, when the trail was cleared the first time, all the rocks

were

Quoted message said:

just pushed to the side. So, we knocked down all the rocks lining the
outside of the trail. The tread isn't any wider, but it LOOKS wider. That
was fun, throwing rocks down the hill all morning.

This is the upper section, in the fog with larch needles before we did
anything to it.
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3132sm.jpg

the white stuff is St. Helen's ash
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3140sm.jpg

We worked on cleaning up the lower section some, fixing the bench cut
mostly. The sun came out and made the larches glow
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3141sm.jpg
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3142sm.jpg

All the down trees are from the fire about 8 years ago.
We were going to dig this one root out, but the tree was dead so it was
felled. The dead ones just fall over in winter anyway.We made a little

jump

Quoted message said:

out of the stump:

http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/stumpjump.jpg

We cleaned up the bottom entry a little so it was more obvious. It's flat
there, not much to be done.

http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3151sm.jpg

Then last thing is we moved gravel into the top section.
It's really fun to ride now.

http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3153sm.jpg
here's "before" again.
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3132sm.jpg

small change said:

the last day, we finished our 894' alternated route trail today! 4 work
days, about 115 hours, and ta-da!

Very nice work!

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small change said:

Hee hee, I cut some of that myself!! I can't swing an axe for [censored] so I
bought a pickax/mattock.

Angry Man has one of those that he calls "The Berserker". I think it
gets the name from when he starts swinging it at a trail.

JD

small change said:

http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3153sm.jpg
here's "before" again.
http://www.fttrc.org/photos/rs/devils/IMG_3132sm.jpg

Looked bloody good before to me, nice chattery section, but afterwards
looks very girlfriend-friendly. Nice work.

J

small change said:

the last day, we finished our 894' alternated route trail today! 4 work
days, about 115 hours, and ta-da!

Ooh, looks pretty.

gabrielle, wondering if she has time for a trip up there before it snows.